DC Comics Reboot

[Relique du Madde]

I'm not buying Superman's new armor. The guy is supposed to be super tough, so putting armored plating on his suit makes him look weak compared to the Flash who is just wearing a "body condom" and Wonderwoman who still looks sort of stripper-iffic.

 

[Felon]

OK, I see, I see.

They're trying to create these "film-friendly" versions of costumes. So, can't have Supes wearing trunks. Can't have yellow/gold belts and tiaras. Make the colors kind of dark and washed-out. And put plating on the costumes so that actors can wear blatantly padded outfits. And the lady hero gets pants.

Now Cyborg, he looks craptacular. He doesn't even have foot joints from what I can tell. That would make hard to do a lot of stuff.

If they are just adding him to impose diversity, I'd prefer Vixen.

 

[Relique du Madde]

So far...they're making fun of it.

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The IRONIC thing is that the Uncanny X-Men after that "Still #543" is Uncanny X-Men #1. Of course, the change in number is because Cyclops wants to make the X-Men into the Justice league, but mutants only, and operating on mutant island (since the only ways to make people tolerant of you is to act superior to them, live a mile or so away from them on a secluded island and act like a nanny), while Wolverine wants to breed with as many humans as possible and attack everyone who tries to oppress mutants (since Darwinism, armed aggression,and societal re-engineering is better then assimilation and co-existence) .

 

[Felon]

I'm curious how Marvel will react to this if it succeeds or fails.

Marvel had their halfway-reboot with the Ultimate titles a long time ago. The films borrow liberally from them rather than the classic versions (e.g. Nick Fury).

 

[Klaus]

I'm not buying Superman's new armor. The guy is supposed to be super tough, so putting armored plating on his suit makes him look weak compared to the Flash who is just wearing a "body condom" and Wonderwoman who still looks sort of stripper-iffic.

From what I can see, Superman isn't wearing armor, but actually a Kryptonian suit. That's why it has kneepads. The "S" looks more like the Superman Returns shield (and Batman, for that matter, is pretty much the Nolan version).

Wonder Woman with silver instead of gold loses some of her contrast. And what's with all the collars, Jim Lee?

 

[Relique du Madde]

From what I can see, Superman isn't wearing armor, but actually a Kryptonian suit. That's why it has kneepads.

Well, that "Kyptonian suit" look like its armor because it's obviously composed of dozens of molded plates that conform to his body.

 

[Klaus]

Those are, afaik, the suit's building seams. Granted, they don't conform to actual, functional building seams.

 

[Sunseeker]

For those of you who are disappointed/unhappy with the reboot, I'm curious about how many DC comics you currently buy each month.

Almost all of them actually. I've been sick of Marvel for basically what DC is about to do, constantly restarting and redoing their lines.

Since this is gonna pretty much kill my DC subs(since most of my attraction to DC has been through the minor, soon to be gone titles). I'm looking at Top Cow and Dark Horse making up my entire comics selection. Yeesh that's not much.

Now DC may very well make these good reboots, but honestly when you have to de-age your characters, to make them "hip" to the "real world", you're shooting at an age group I have no interest in reading stories designed for. The whole reason Superman didn't fight the Nazi's is because he would have won. We can't have Wonder Woman or Batman fighting AlQueda, because they're not real and we all know they'd win, and forcing them to lose is so trite.

 

[Viking Bastard]

I think the costume refreshes are generally pretty good. I tend to like Jim Lee's costume redesigns. Historically, the main problem with Jim Lee's costumes has been that no one other than Jim Lee can draw them properly.

The WW costume has been in use for a while, I think. Or at least something similar. The Supes costume is a bit jarring, but doesn't really stray that far from the classic. From what I understand, the Supes costume also has something to do with establishing a distinct (trademarkable) official DC look for Supes because he's just about to go public domain.

Almost all of them actually. I've been sick of Marvel for basically what DC is about to do, constantly restarting and redoing their lines.

Personally, I've always thought they should restart the numbering whenever they start a new "run" on a title (I put "run" in quotes, because the definition of what exactly constitutes a run is pretty malleable).

 

[Umbran]

From what I understand, the Supes costume also has something to do with establishing a distinct (trademarkable) official DC look for Supes because he's just about to go public domain.

I don't believe that's true. I think rights to the original costume design may soon revert to the estates of the original creators - Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster.

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It gets hairy. I mean, the legal issues, not the costume. Who needs a fur-covered Superman?